Word: zuchnow
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...born to trouble, but he somehow never gets used to it. Mendel Singer, Russian Jew, teacher of the Scriptures in the village of Zuchnow, was a harmless kind of fellow, poor like the rest of his neighbors, but with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being...